TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN
SCHOOL OF LANGUAGES, LITERATURES AND CULTURES
FRENCH DEPARTMENT
Beyond Normandy in World War 2:
Occupation, Resistance & Remembrance
Room 3106, Arts Building (9.15 a.m.-12.30 p.m.)
Synge Theatre, Arts Building (2.00 p.m. - 5.30 p.m.)
FRIDAY 19th NOVEMBER 2010
This is the third in a series of colloquia organised under the aegis of the French
Department of Trinity College Dublin to examine the impact of WW2 with
particular reference to France and Ireland. The first two, held in 2008 and 2009
respectively, considered the Irish role in the liberation of France and the theme of
commemoration. This third colloquium focuses primarily on the themes of
resistance and memorialisation in relation to Ireland, France, Holland, Great
Britain and the Channel Islands.
Room 3106, Arts Building
09.15 a.m.: Registration (outside Room 3106)
09.40 a.m.: Welcome: Sarah Alyn Stacey and Gerald Morgan (T.C.D.)
Session 1 (Chair: Gerald Morgan)
10.00 a.m.: Gavin Hughes (Independent): The Moral War: Irish attitudes
and Military Resistance to the Third Reich, 1939-1945, with Reference to
the Dieppe Raid, 1942.
10.30 a.m.: David Truesdale (Independent): The Dutch Resistance and the
Escape and Evasion of Irish Paratroops at Arnhem, 1944
11.00 a.m.: Refreshments
Session 2 (Chair: Gavin Hughes)
11.30 a.m.: George Busby (Independent): ‘The Listeners of Gillnahirk’ – Military
Intelligence 8a in Ulster 1939-1945
12.00: Kevin Myers (Journalist): Irishmen in the RAF in World War 2
12.30 p.m.: Lunch (own arrangements)
Synge Theatre, Arts Building
Session 3 (Chair: Tommy Murtagh)
2.00 p.m.: Pierre-Yves Canu (former member of the French Resistance): ‘Le
Vécu de la Résistance’
3.00 p.m.: Refreshments
Session 4 (Chair: Kevin Myers)
3.30 p.m.: Jonty Trigg (Glasgow University): Irish Commemoration in Britain and
Ireland: Memorials of the Second World War
4.00 p.m.: Gilly Carr (St. Catherine's College, Cambridge): Protest, Defiance and
Resistance during the German Occupation of the Channel Islands: Political
Prisoners, Memory and Memorialisation 1945-2010
4.30 p.m.: Yvonne McEwen (Centre for the Study of the Two World Wars,
University of Edinburgh): Roll of Honour
5.00 p.m.: Concluding comments: Kevin Myers
ALL WELCOME
Enquiries to: Sarah Alyn Stacey, French Department, Trinity College, Dublin 2;
salynsta@tcd.ie; tel. 01-896 2686